The world’s largest economies have thrown their weight behind a global tax reform deal that would impose a minimum levy on multinational corporations, ramping up pressure on a small number of holdout countries to sign on to the agreement.
G20 economy ministers and central bankers meeting in Venice on Saturday issued a joint communiqué endorsing the tax deal, which was agreed by G7 nations last month and backed by 130 countries at talks hosted by the OECD in Paris.
The communiqué called the deal “a historic agreement on a more stable and fairer international tax architecture” and the G20 invited “all members of the OECD . . . that have not yet joined the agreement to do so”.